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Leroy, Texas

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Axtell census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76654. It stands on Moose Creek. The Survey maps it on the Elm Mott quadrangle. 354 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 495 feet above sea level.

Leroy within McLennan County

Population over time

3 figures

Leroy grew from 335 to 354 between 2000 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
2000335
2010337+2 (+1%)
2020354+17 (+5%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 18 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

Fires near this place

113 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 113 fires within 5 miles of Leroy between 2003 and 2020, burning about 676 acres in total. 1 started naturally. None was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined55
Debris and open burning45
Equipment and vehicle use6
Railroad operations and maintenance5
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Natural1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
6 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceMUTUAL AID-LEROY-GRASS
27 September 2012Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCONTROL BURN-BODE RD.
26 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceGF170
25 September 2004Debris and open burning5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCENTRAL TX - 13
18 September 2014Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASSFIRE-MAZANEC LANE
18 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined30 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
18 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined40 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCENTRAL TX - 11
10 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLEROY PKWY

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in McLennan County

Storms near this place

12 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Leroy in 12 storm reports between 2000 and 2017: 5 hail, 3 flash flood, 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2008Thunderstorm WindLeroy$15,000A roof was blown off a mobile home.
March 2006Thunderstorm WindLeroy$15,000A shed was blown onto a car and was destroyed.
February 2013Thunderstorm WindLeroy$8,000High winds tore most of the metal roof off a metal shop building on Gerald Lane in Elm Mott. Some items inside the shop were damaged. These strong winds occurred from nearby light rain helping to drag strong winds aloft to the ground.
November 2001Flash FloodLeroy$5,000A house was flooded in Leroy, and roads and bridges were flooded in the surrounding area.
April 2011HailLeroy$4,000no account filed
May 2017HailLeroy$1,000Trained spotter reported half dollar size hail in Leroy. Time estimated by radar.
May 2010HailLeroy$1,000Baseball sized hail was reported between Leroy and Elm Mott on FM 308.
April 2017HailLeroy-Amateur radio reported quarter-sized hail in the city of Leroy, TX.
April 2011Tornado (EF0)Leroy-A NWS Storm Survey determined an EF-0 tornado began approximately 3.75 miles east-northeast of Elm Mott. This tornado had a path length of approximately a third of a mile and an estimated width of 50 yards. Some tree damage occurred with this tornado and winds were estimated near 75 mph.
June 2010Flash FloodLeroy-High water was reported over Farm-to-Market Road 308 near the town of Leroy.
June 2000Flash FloodLeroy-A road was flooded in the city.
April 2011HailLeroy-no account filed

Every storm recorded in McLennan County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Tours2.2 miles14
Hoen3.8 miles7
Ross5.4 miles18
Axtell5.6 miles8
Elm Mott6.0 miles18
West6.3 miles14
Cottonwood6.7 miles14
Tokio7.5 miles15

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on LeroyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q981698The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1361106. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.